Self Reliance Skills

• Says full name, sex, age, address, telephone number and birthday
• Knows right and left
• Recognizes/points to body parts
• Independent with self-help skills (i.e. toileting, hand washing, shoes/coat
• Begins to print first and last name using “Title Case” e.g., John Smith
• Begins to know right and left

 
Social/Emotional Skills

• Accepts and responds to teacher’s suggestions and authority
• Respects and shows concern for people and things
• Plays and shares cooperatively with other children
• Demonstrates confidence and pride in self
• Expresses feelings appropriately
• Able to negotiate solutions to conflicts by using compromise

Beginning Work Habits

• Follows routines with growing independence
• Follows directions
• Works alone appropriately
• Works well in small groups
• Does not disturb classmates’ work
• Seeks only fair share of teacher’s attention
• Works neatly
• Takes care and cleans up work materials

Language Arts Skills

    Listening

• Follows a sequence of three simple directions
• Listens quietly with lengthening attention span
• Responds to a story by recalling and answering questions    
• Tells the main idea of pictures and stories
• Tells what will happen next in the story    
• Retells a story

    Speaking

• Speaks clearly
• Communicates in complete sentences
• Answers some questions
• Is expanding vocabulary
• Contributes to group discussions
• Waits for turn when speaking in a group

    Reading/Writing 

• Draws and colors within the lines
• Cuts on straight and curved lines
• Holds pencil correctly
• Recognizes and uses top to bottom progression
• Recognizes and uses left to right progression
• Identifies and produces rhyming words
• Identifies likenesses and differences
• Identifies upper and lower case names
• Produces upper and lower case sounds

Math Skills

• Counts 1-50
• Identifies and writes numbers 1-20
• Produces a simple pattern of objects
• Knows opposite words (hot/cold)
• Knows position words (top/bottom)
• Categorizes objects by shapes, colors, sizes, textures
• Associates numbers with members of a set
• Begins to understand the concept of adding and subtracting
• Identifies and draws shapes (triangle, square, rectangle, circle, oval, diamond, heart, and cross)
• Measures with non-standard objects e.g., ruler, pan balance, blocks, classroom objects)

Science/Social Studies

• Makes predictions in experiments
• Seeks information through observation and exploration
• Uses simple tools and equipment in working with the 5 senses
• Observes and describes characteristics, basic needs, and life cycles of living things
• Observes and describes simple seasonal and weather changes
• Identifies similarities and differences in people
• Has awareness of the reasons for rules
• Begins to understand what it means to be a leader